Question Of The Week: What’s The Best Game For Multiplayer?

There are thousands (meiosis) of games in the world, some offer multiplayer, some do not. Furthermore, there are thousands (meiosis) of gamers in the world. And what do you get when you blend games and gamers together?

Many games offer multiplayer functionality, but some of them are just sheer rubbish. Most games, however, are very good for multiplayer as they offer enjoyment for hours, competition for months, and battles which always differ.

It’ll be quite tedious to compile a massive list of games which are great for multiplayer, and sadly, it’ll also offer no value. Therefore, we want to know: What’s the best game for multiplayer?

Console fans would think Halo, Call of Duty, Fifa — amongst others, where PC fans would think StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty — amongst others. Notice, we’ve put Call of Duty twice, but this doesn’t necessarily make it the best game for multiplayer. You see, you might be intrigued by a story and not just fast paced competitive shooting. You might like competition sports. Hell, you might like racing.

If you have a game in mind, let us know in the comments below. It can be any game; a game you’ve played, or even just seen. Don’t forget arcade games!

At home it is nice to go online with a few friends all over the country and have a few games together before bed.. Once in a while a nice big LAN such as OC is also fun to play DotA, because then you get to play with other players and meet some players that you used to play with, and the competition is also the best.

DotA is not the BEST game, but sure is the best multiplayer game, for both online and offline. The friend’s system works brilliantly if u want to see where your friends are. The level system helps to keep newbs from being slaughtered by the pro’s.. Another plus is that so many people play DotA, the chances that you play with the same players, are less than 10%

Lloyd

Tekken was my favourite multiplayer game for many years. I sat up nights practicing my combos. It’s just a pity that I never beat my friend Cai, he was the best.

Razia

I would say the original PONG!You all remember those good old days of extreme hardcore 2 colour graphics and those intense sessions of playing vs your friends or an AI that could take over the world. Those were the good days…

Pong provided countless hours of fun and can now even be played on your mobile while “working” or standing in a que. That makes it epic!

Staple

Finally! First thing I’ve won since my baby crawling competition back in the day.

Best multiplayer game for me, undoubtedly, has to be Age of Empires II. Too bad Microsoft stopped online support so soon, even before I got ADSL. Now I’m left playing it at small LAN parties :(

Dean

Baby crawling competition? AWESOME!

Cuddles

Team Fortress 2, that is all!

reV

Well, I don’t feel ;ole I’m in a position to actually label anything as the “best” multiplayer game. But in terms of personal preference, I much prefer Co-op multiplayer than versus multiplayer.

What’s so great about versus (or team versus) multiplayer games compared to playing single player against a bunch of AIs? Nothing really, a bigger spectrum of skill levels, and that’s where half of the problem comes in. Unless you’ve reach the top of the ladder, there’s almost no way to ensure that you get a fair game between players of equal skill levels, hence screwing up the balance of the game. DotA is one of the most heavily affected game by that issue.

Co-op multiplayers? Sure, there are still skill levels, but who cares! It’s not “competitive”, no pressure! If someone else is pro? awesome! If someone else is noob? Help him along. Shmup and Beat-em-up are probably the best multiplayer games in that regards, as the skill level of your team-mates do not directly affect your own performance, in fact, if your mate sitting next to you is crap, it’s actually a good motivation for you to play at your absolute best just to impress them. Some examples of such games? Contra (NES), Metal Slug (NeoGeo), Shock Troopers (NeoGeo), Life Force (NES), Guwange (Arcade), Aero Fighters (NeoGeo), DnD: Shadow over Mystara (Arcade), Chip n Dales (NES), the list goes on and on, there are just so many entertaining Shmup/Beat-em-up co-ops games that I’d love to sit with a mate and spend an entire day finishing.

Oh and almost forgot, there are also RPGs like Diablo, NWN, etc. Those are definitely worthy of mentioning as being the more entertaining co-ops.

If I have to name a single game that really stood out for me as a multiplayer… argh, a tie between Metal Slug 2 for Arcade/NeoGeo and Contra: Hard Corp for Sega Genesis, those gave me the most memorable multiplayer experiences and hours that I’ll never forget.

reV

*feel like

Staple

Contra <3 Battle City <3

reV

HAHA, FUCK, after I made the post I actually JUST remembered Battle City, was gonna post again but thought “fuck it, it’s one wall of a post already”. But yeah, it was like the one game I get to play with my mom back when I was a kiddy all the time, and it was one of the only multiplayer shooty/kill-shit games my Mom actually plays on NES (aside from Gradius, but that’s single player, I got Life Force/Salamander too late and mom was over the NES by then), she always hogs the powerups though :<

kluch

hot mom?

reV

About as hot as yours.

NightStalker007

LAN Call of Duty takes the top spot for a multiplayer game in LAN’s.

Internet Call of Duty isn’t that high rated for internet multiplayer game because it requires a good internet connection and its a bit hard on your cap, but on the other hand we have warcraft3 (DotA to be specific) and World of Warcraft. Due to the alternate reality that WOW has it definitely has more users that warcraft3.

Final Answer The best multiplayer game is poker online. It doesn’t meet some of our standards to play it because we are hard on gamers, but we can’t argue with the fact that poker online has more users in total and more users per day.

Facts why poker is the best You don’t need to think to play poker If you lose then it is not over If you need chips then you can actually buy them Everybody can play poker Poker can be a short game (2min) Poker can be a long game (days) You can play poker at work without your boss noticing it (Fast minimizer) Loads short Don’t need a fast internet Low on cap Don’t need a good computer Idiots can play it It has massive numbers of users plating it on each server etc (I’m not going to sit whole night and put up all the reasons why poker is better, because it will take to long)

Poker is the best multiplayer game

NightStalker007

It has massive numbers of users *plating* it on each server plating must be playing like this: It has massive numbers of users playing it on each server

Flaming-Sheep

Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s superior, by that standard, Windows is the best OS…

Also, if you want to be any good at playing poker, you’re definitely going to have to think.

Online poker is so much more boring than real life poker, even if it’s more convenient.

Technically everyone cant play poker online coz gambiling is illegal for under 18’s…

Flaming-Sheep

Not illegal if you don’t bet anything…

Toothy

For me at the moment it is DotA and also LOL(League of Legends… In Future to come it will be without a doubt Defence of the Ancients 2.0…

So ultimately best for multiplayer is War3(DOTA)

CaViE

Freelancer. Or well, some form of Freelancer were there was proper server support and a large enough user base. Easily the most addictive multiplayer experience since Defense of the Ancients.

Gandalf_storm

For me it was Demons Souls (PS3), reason being the main reason you go online is to get some co-op going with someone that has a different build from you, maybe get through a part you couldn’t, and then next thing you know, you get the message “you are being invaded” and you realise you now have to fight one of these people that you know is better than you and if you lose, there go your souls…..

Flaming-Sheep

Well I’ve got a list (I’d eventually get bored of playing 1 game multiplayer forever)

[u][b]Best lan games:[/b][/u]

Warcraft 3 (The custom maps are each like a new game, therefore really enjoyable and hours of entertainment)

any game that runs easily, by that I mean doesn’t have to be connected to the internet to play, playing these games at a lan is a no no

Farkyne

Battle Tank! The old arcade game you got when you bought 32 in 1 card-thingy in a tv-game console. Me and my brother you’ed to play that a lot. Was really fun

CaViE

You know, if there was a no-guns, knife-fight mode in Call of Duty, or equivalent game (not BF:BC2 because those knives be broken, yo) then I think that would be the future of multiplayer. :P

Michael

console: FIFA PC LAN: No game out there that can be played over LAN now a days IMO. PC online: World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2 (it’s always changing, which just keeps peoples interest even though the graphics are more out dated than a Jimi Hendrix song)

SairenSA

Gunstar Heroes! (Sega-Genesis-Mega-Drive)

reV

^ Fuck yeah.

Too bad I never actually got to play with anyone else on it.

SairenSA

Dude, your fucking missing out tbth! :D

reV

You have no idea how much I envision myself playing the headband non-mobile dude using a homing+flame gun whilst mate plays the run/shoot guy with homing+lazer gun, we would’ve steamrolled through the game.

SairenSA

That homing laser combo is such a hax… But fun and easy for n00bs. I used the hand-to-hand method. I was mostly throwing, kicking and punching my way out of stages than I was pulling the trigger.

SairenSA

But it was fucking great! Well there is a mod of Gunstar Heroes on moddb. Just heard from them a long time ago.

Ulti

hmm lets se best multiplayer game. Css and CoD. Css is just plain and simple fun. Most players who play fps games do play css. thats online and lan. on bot sides bot games are great to play.

Ulti

Both*

http://www.d4rk.co.za NeoN

LAN: Call of Duty. Some of the most memorable days of my life were spent LAN’ing COD.

Online: DotA. Nothing else out there for me. :P

Sloth

Best Multiplayer game. I DUB THEE BORDERLANDS!! perfect number of players. Hybrd of FPS and RPG. Co-op story. Choice to do battle with friend. It is by far the best multiplayer in my opnion.

wabB1T

/agree

absolutely LOVE borderlands :D yeah, my friends got a bit bored of it and haven’t played it for a couple months now…

Buuut… we got the DLC packs now and gonna play it again next LAN :D

Sloth

Me and my Bud are still on Knoxx, playthrough 2. WAiting for the Level cap increase patch before doing Claptrap Revolution.

Well Counterstrike has always been the leader in online games and lan’s.Since the rise of Massive online game like WOW and Guild Wars CS pretty much sunk to the bottom..well you cant actually compare thos 2 together but certanly somewhere there must be something worth it.

Halo 3 gave us all sumthing to do when it came out..We all swarmed Halo like a ant colony..But it never went to LAN’s.Dota in the other end has been no-stop since it came out.Everyday more people join the online servers and everyday Dota rises.The COD series is nice for Lan’s and the single player is awsome but it’s never enough for the punch.

So we all should rise for DOTA…

Strega

Ok so this might be because iv only just got it, but at the moment im LOVING Sports Champion on the PS3 Move…

With all the different options of sporting events to play, you have HOURS of non stop entertainment, Me and mates have Ping Pong sessions that go on into the wee hours of the morning… And the Gladiator Duel is AWESOME!!!

I think the biggest selling point is that you can have more than just 2 players (when not online)

Dean

Do you know that I almost typed intreagged in the article? :(

Flaming-Sheep

You obviously don’t fully understand all the tricks of the traid.

Strega

Traid… Fail… EPIC TRADE!!!! 4X4!!!

Strega

for those or you that dont get it… its a 16X fail…

Winston Whitehead

Have to say , even though I have aplaystation 3, I went to my friend and we played a lot of Halo 3 on his X box that was awsome, and then there was rianbow 6 vegas and vegas 2 good for split screan.